Some years ago my son Brian took his bicycle to Gonzales for a 100-mile bike race during Come and Take It Days. My wife, Jean, and I went along to support him and enjoy the parade.

While there, we decided to visit her aunt, who had lived there for many years. We could not remember her address. We went to the Dairy Queen to check its phonebook. Her aunt was sitting at a table with three other women “where people meet and eat.”

Jim Roberts, Live Oak

Now they protest?

An open letter to Julián Castro and Joaquin Castro:

Julian, you served in the Obama administration as secretary of housing and urban development from 2014-17. Where was your outrage then? Did you speak to your boss, President Barack Obama, about ending his policy of separating children from their parents?

Joaquin, you have been in Congress serving the 20th district since 2013. Where was your outrage of Obama’s policy? Did you make any speeches on the House floor condemning the practice and demanding change during Obama’s presidency? What legislation did you introduce to effect change to the laws?

I don’t recall any front page stories in the Express-News of either of you making such an outcry during the Obama administration.

You are both as fake as the crocodile tears you now weep in front of the press’s cameras.

David Gay, Alamo Heights

Fake charge

Another letter writer has accused the media of “producing fake news” on immigrant children crying.

I have seen five different videos on CNN and MSNBC of these poor children crying (some were sound only, but two had video), and not one showed what the letter writer accused, which was Hispanic children saying Anglicized “Mommy” and “Daddy” instead of “Mama” and “Papa.” All I heard clearly said, “Mama,” and one said, “Papi.”

Is it simply that if you can convince yourself the news is “fake” and all these children are happily at day camp, then you don’t have to question what your government is doing?